Jonathan Miller, who’s now kind of the new chairman of the International Secular Society or the British Humanist Association, one of the two, in England. He said to me the other day, he doesn’t like the word atheist because he doesn’t think there should be a special word for it, if you don’t have a word for saying you don’t believe in the Tooth Fairy.
A Different Argument: Interview with Christopher Hitchens in The Seattle Weekly
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I’ve implemented a little update for the ‘Related Content’ that’s found at the bottom of each post. While all posts will continue to link to other posts on a vaguely similar theme, longer posts will show a ‘Sphere It!’ link.
These links show content from all around the web and particularly the ‘blogosphere’ as bloggers like to call it. I think of the ‘blogosphere’ just as I would ‘the media’ but with the simple difference that content is written by normal people and perhaps not a professional production. The Sphere link opens an onscreen box which links to this other aggregated content. Just as the ‘Related Posts’ links are generated automatically and without any input from me (in their case, by Yahoo), Sphere content is linked via the company itself and I have no control over what it shows your or how or why.
Other examples of Sphere links can be seen below:
Walt Mossberg
TechCrunch
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This photoshoot by Cliff Watts, proves to me how talented an actress Lindsay Lohan is. Not only can she act, but the fact that she can model as so clearly demonstrated in these shots, with the variety and quality of poses offered, really affirms my respect for her. She may be a party animal and currently a bit off the rails , but her talent shines. It’s impressive.
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“For everything sold on iTunes, we get the majority of the 70-79p per unit sale price,” [one independent label owner] said, then added: “But for everything sold on the Ruckus Network we receive the princely sum of £0.005 per unit. That’s half a pence. My distributor then takes their 25 per cent off of that, leaving myself and the artists to dish up the remaining fractions of a penny between us.”
It’s not much better through Real Networks, he informed – for sales through that service, his label receives a penny per track, he claimed. The thousand tracks sold so far have accrued £10 to the label (to share with the artists) rather than, “the £790 or so we’d have got for the same amount of sales through iTunes.”
MacWorld: iTunes income substantial for music partners
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